While the potential efficiency gains to be realized through water utility privatization have been extolled, the impacts of such programs on different categories of service users are not well understood or closely scrutinized in the literature. Along with efficiency, do privatiza…
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In Ghana, over 70% of urban dwellers do not have private sanitation facilities in their home and rely instead on an informal network of shared toilets. The predominance of shared toilets in Ghana is the result of unplanned urbanization, specific features of housing, socio-econom…
Affordability of energy in the domestic sector is the product of three interrelated factors - level of household income, level of energy bills (which are a product of prices and levels of energy demand, mediated by tariffs and the retail market), and the amount of energy that a …
A major public health concern in the Washington, DC, area for the many African immigrants is their access to and use of health services. This quantitative cross-sectional correlational study investigated 8 barriers and 8 enablers of Nigerian immigrants' use of healthcare and the…
Many renters in the United States experience housing problems that can contribute to precarious living situations. These include unaffordable rents, poor physical conditions, overcrowding, and forced moves. These challenges faced by a large proportion of renters are most often s…